Democracy and Classical Greece: Second Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674196070)

The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this Greek culture--material, political and intellectual--reached its zenith. At the same time, the Greek states were at their most powerful and quarrelsome. J. K. Davies traces the flowering of this extraordinary society, drawing on a wealth of documentary material: houses and graves, extant sculpture and vases, as well as the writings of historians, orators, biographers, dramatists, and philosophers.

Author: John Kenyon Davies
ISBN-10: 0674196074
ISBN-13: 9780674196070
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.42w x 0.88d